[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 144 (Thursday, September 7, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5069]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 834. Mrs. MURRAY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
her to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2018 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. PROHIBITION ON CONTRACTING WITH DISCRIMINATORY 
                   CONTRACTORS.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense may not enter 
     into any contract described in subsection (b) with any person 
     or business that the Secretary of Labor determines to have 
     engaged, during the 3-year period preceding the request for 
     proposals for the contract, in serious, repeated, willful, or 
     pervasive discrimination on the basis of sex in the payment 
     of wages in violation of section 6(d) of the Fair Labor 
     Standards Act of 1938 (commonly known as the ``Equal Pay Act 
     of 1963'') (29 U.S.C. 206(d)) or of title VII of the Civil 
     Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq.).
       (b) Applicable Contract.--A contract described in this 
     subsection is any procurement contract for goods or services, 
     including construction, in which the estimated value of the 
     supplies acquired and services required exceeds $500,000.
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